Nov
29
What is a Blog Anyway?
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eklavya asked:
If you are not new to the Internet and have spent some time here, you must have heard about these terms – “Blogging” and “Blogs”. However, if you are feeling a little difficulty in understanding properly what exactly is this blog and how you can use it, then read this simple explanation of blog and blogging which will clear the everything for you.
What is a Blog?
In simplest terms, a blog is a daily journal of your thoughts maintained you (a Blogger) on the web. When posting to a blog you will notice that it is arranged in chronological order – with the most recent additions on top. As you keep postings more and more posts, the older posts will enter into an Archive folder so that visitors can view your past posts easily.
You can allow your readers to add their own comments/feedback on any of your Blog post. You can add audio to your blog known as Podcast, which readers can listen to. In fact it’s a great way be in touch with your customers.
How I can start a Blog ?
It’s very easy really. There are numerous options available. If you want to have an experience of Blogging without spending money, you can opt for the blogging service from Blogger.com or from Wordpress.com. These two websites are world’s most popular free blogs providers and have some excellent tools for starting a blog. On Blogger.com you also have the option to earn money from your free blog through Google Adsense program. Basically you only need to register at these blogging service for a free account, fill some information and lo your blog is ready ! Starting a Blog is just like opening a new email account !
However, I strongly advise you that once you get a sufficient experience of running a blog on these free blogging platform, you should switch to a professional blog by having your own domain name and host. This can be easily done by using the Wordpress Blogging tool (wordpress.org) which is the most powerful and free blogging software on earth. Working on wordpress is as simple as a breeze. There are zillions of wordpress tutorials for newbies on internet. Further, there are many web hosting companies which offered wordpress enabled site hosting where installing wordpress is just a matter of point and click.
What a blog can do for me?
Well, a blog can changed your life literally. If your blog become successful, you will be freed from all your financial worries. For many people, their blog has become a virtual moneymaking machine. If you have any doubts over power of a blog ask Steve Pavlina, the guy who is earning $1000 a day (probably more) from his personal Blog.
What are other benefit of having a blog :
There are many and some of them are :
1. A blog is a strong communication tool to keep in touch with your customers.
2. A blog allows you to get to know your customers and their needs, as well as, allowing your customers to know the blogger – that is you J
3. A blog (if updated regularly) can provide daily, quality content – which the Search engines love and thus, increase your traffic.
4. A blog can be used to advertise your links. You can write on an affiliate product in your blog post thus increasing the chance of a sale.
5. A blog can be used to answer inquiries that people may have about your product.
6. A blog can be used to bring social change as is doing by some bloggers from China, Myanmar and Iran despite stiff resistance from their Governments.
Well , the list is not exhaustive and I have not mentioned all the benefits of a blog as it’s an introductory article on blogging. In my opinion there is only one draw back of starting a blog — you’ll have to maintain it constantly
I read somewhere that a Blog is like a shark. It’ll die if it stops. A blog needs constant feeding of your thought matter to survive. The blog should be maintained on a regular basis or it’ll lose it’s power and effectiveness.
Now enough of my ranting on blogging. Get up and go blogging. Best of luck to you.
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If you are not new to the Internet and have spent some time here, you must have heard about these terms – “Blogging” and “Blogs”. However, if you are feeling a little difficulty in understanding properly what exactly is this blog and how you can use it, then read this simple explanation of blog and blogging which will clear the everything for you.
What is a Blog?
In simplest terms, a blog is a daily journal of your thoughts maintained you (a Blogger) on the web. When posting to a blog you will notice that it is arranged in chronological order – with the most recent additions on top. As you keep postings more and more posts, the older posts will enter into an Archive folder so that visitors can view your past posts easily.
You can allow your readers to add their own comments/feedback on any of your Blog post. You can add audio to your blog known as Podcast, which readers can listen to. In fact it’s a great way be in touch with your customers.
How I can start a Blog ?
It’s very easy really. There are numerous options available. If you want to have an experience of Blogging without spending money, you can opt for the blogging service from Blogger.com or from Wordpress.com. These two websites are world’s most popular free blogs providers and have some excellent tools for starting a blog. On Blogger.com you also have the option to earn money from your free blog through Google Adsense program. Basically you only need to register at these blogging service for a free account, fill some information and lo your blog is ready ! Starting a Blog is just like opening a new email account !
However, I strongly advise you that once you get a sufficient experience of running a blog on these free blogging platform, you should switch to a professional blog by having your own domain name and host. This can be easily done by using the Wordpress Blogging tool (wordpress.org) which is the most powerful and free blogging software on earth. Working on wordpress is as simple as a breeze. There are zillions of wordpress tutorials for newbies on internet. Further, there are many web hosting companies which offered wordpress enabled site hosting where installing wordpress is just a matter of point and click.
What a blog can do for me?
Well, a blog can changed your life literally. If your blog become successful, you will be freed from all your financial worries. For many people, their blog has become a virtual moneymaking machine. If you have any doubts over power of a blog ask Steve Pavlina, the guy who is earning $1000 a day (probably more) from his personal Blog.
What are other benefit of having a blog :
There are many and some of them are :
1. A blog is a strong communication tool to keep in touch with your customers.
2. A blog allows you to get to know your customers and their needs, as well as, allowing your customers to know the blogger – that is you J
3. A blog (if updated regularly) can provide daily, quality content – which the Search engines love and thus, increase your traffic.
4. A blog can be used to advertise your links. You can write on an affiliate product in your blog post thus increasing the chance of a sale.
5. A blog can be used to answer inquiries that people may have about your product.
6. A blog can be used to bring social change as is doing by some bloggers from China, Myanmar and Iran despite stiff resistance from their Governments.
Well , the list is not exhaustive and I have not mentioned all the benefits of a blog as it’s an introductory article on blogging. In my opinion there is only one draw back of starting a blog — you’ll have to maintain it constantly
I read somewhere that a Blog is like a shark. It’ll die if it stops. A blog needs constant feeding of your thought matter to survive. The blog should be maintained on a regular basis or it’ll lose it’s power and effectiveness.
Now enough of my ranting on blogging. Get up and go blogging. Best of luck to you.
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Nov
21
The Blog Factor
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Penny Sansevieri asked:
So what is this “blog factor”? Well, what a few thought was a novel idea some years ago has now morphed into something no one expected. There are currently nine million blogs out there with 40,000 new ones being added everyday. Some are informative and some are just downright a waste of your time. And while we hear a lot about blogging these days, what is blogging *really*?
Blogging in its simplest term is like an online journal but much, much more powerful. Blogs (short for Web log) is a place where surfers can get up to the minute information on a topic or voyeur into someone’s life. Some blogs are nothing more than a daily glimpse into someone’s life, while others are so sophisticated, it’s hard to tell them apart from an online news service.
Why Blogs Matter Google, the #1 search engine on the net, loves blogs. So much so that if you do it right Google will spider the heck out of your site. What does it mean to “spider”? Well spidering is when Google, or the like, searches your sites content to establish ranking, the more content you have (i.e. fresh content) the more Google will do its magic and push your site up the search engine. Another reason blogs matter is that they are interactive and, if you blog on your books topic, it will help to further your expert status on a particular issue.
When we plan “Virtual Tours” for our authors, we include as many blogs as we can into a tour. Why? Because if you can get into a good blog that’s seeing a lot of traffic, you can really start to gain some exposure for your book.
What Would You Talk About? This is the question we get asked most often. “If I start a blog, what on earth would I talk about?” Well if your book is non-fiction it’s pretty easy to figure out what your topic would be, but if your book is fiction it could get a bit tricky – but not impossible.
An author I work with has a series of books starring one character – a private detective. I recommended that he “blog” this character, meaning that the character (not the author) would have the blog. It could be the character’s diary or adventures and stories – a glimpse into the life of a private detective. This would give the reader (and fans of this character) a reason to return to the blog for an update on this ongoing adventure or story.
In another instance, I work with an author who wrote a fiction book about right and wrong with a new age/spirituality spin. I advised him to blog on issues related to that – right and wrong in our society and his own personal “spin” on these issues. Some of his blogs might be controversial but that’s okay, you want to create your own “voice,” your own take on a certain issue and if that opinion is controversial, all the better for exposure and for getting people to interact on your blog. Getting readers to respond to your posts is a great way to gain interest and momentum for your blog and (more importantly) getting people to talk about it will grow your blog like nothing else!
How to Start a Blog Starting a blog is super easy. All you have to do is register at a blog site (like www.blogger.com) and get started. It’s that easy. The blog service will link to your site; you’ll need to ask your Webmaster to add a button to your home page so people can find your blog.
How to Blog Effectively The best bloggers know that the more you add to your blog, the more traffic you’ll drive there. Some bloggers I know post daily, sometimes even multiple times a day while others post weekly. How much you post will probably depend on how much time you have to dedicate to this, the challenge will be that if you want to keep driving people to your blog, you’ll want fresh content.
This doesn’t mean you have to create this all yourself, in fact you can invite people onto your blog and interview them, or you can just post a one paragraph “thought” on your topic. It doesn’t have to be complicated or long, it just has to be fresh. Also be innovative, as we discussed earlier, be different with your blog, have fun with it. It might seem complicated at first but once you get the hang of it, you’ll quickly become a blog expert!
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So what is this “blog factor”? Well, what a few thought was a novel idea some years ago has now morphed into something no one expected. There are currently nine million blogs out there with 40,000 new ones being added everyday. Some are informative and some are just downright a waste of your time. And while we hear a lot about blogging these days, what is blogging *really*?
Blogging in its simplest term is like an online journal but much, much more powerful. Blogs (short for Web log) is a place where surfers can get up to the minute information on a topic or voyeur into someone’s life. Some blogs are nothing more than a daily glimpse into someone’s life, while others are so sophisticated, it’s hard to tell them apart from an online news service.
Why Blogs Matter Google, the #1 search engine on the net, loves blogs. So much so that if you do it right Google will spider the heck out of your site. What does it mean to “spider”? Well spidering is when Google, or the like, searches your sites content to establish ranking, the more content you have (i.e. fresh content) the more Google will do its magic and push your site up the search engine. Another reason blogs matter is that they are interactive and, if you blog on your books topic, it will help to further your expert status on a particular issue.
When we plan “Virtual Tours” for our authors, we include as many blogs as we can into a tour. Why? Because if you can get into a good blog that’s seeing a lot of traffic, you can really start to gain some exposure for your book.
What Would You Talk About? This is the question we get asked most often. “If I start a blog, what on earth would I talk about?” Well if your book is non-fiction it’s pretty easy to figure out what your topic would be, but if your book is fiction it could get a bit tricky – but not impossible.
An author I work with has a series of books starring one character – a private detective. I recommended that he “blog” this character, meaning that the character (not the author) would have the blog. It could be the character’s diary or adventures and stories – a glimpse into the life of a private detective. This would give the reader (and fans of this character) a reason to return to the blog for an update on this ongoing adventure or story.
In another instance, I work with an author who wrote a fiction book about right and wrong with a new age/spirituality spin. I advised him to blog on issues related to that – right and wrong in our society and his own personal “spin” on these issues. Some of his blogs might be controversial but that’s okay, you want to create your own “voice,” your own take on a certain issue and if that opinion is controversial, all the better for exposure and for getting people to interact on your blog. Getting readers to respond to your posts is a great way to gain interest and momentum for your blog and (more importantly) getting people to talk about it will grow your blog like nothing else!
How to Start a Blog Starting a blog is super easy. All you have to do is register at a blog site (like www.blogger.com) and get started. It’s that easy. The blog service will link to your site; you’ll need to ask your Webmaster to add a button to your home page so people can find your blog.
How to Blog Effectively The best bloggers know that the more you add to your blog, the more traffic you’ll drive there. Some bloggers I know post daily, sometimes even multiple times a day while others post weekly. How much you post will probably depend on how much time you have to dedicate to this, the challenge will be that if you want to keep driving people to your blog, you’ll want fresh content.
This doesn’t mean you have to create this all yourself, in fact you can invite people onto your blog and interview them, or you can just post a one paragraph “thought” on your topic. It doesn’t have to be complicated or long, it just has to be fresh. Also be innovative, as we discussed earlier, be different with your blog, have fun with it. It might seem complicated at first but once you get the hang of it, you’ll quickly become a blog expert!
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Nov
9
Nov
8
Zune’s Incompatibility with VISTA
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BeetTV asked:
The new vista mary jo foley is one of the industrys most astute microsoft now see this video on the techcrunch party last night she published very interesting scoop on beettv httpwwwbeettv200611high_flying_silhtml.
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Nov
4
Davion W asked:
Niche marketing blogs are powerful income machines. Many online marketing gurus own such blogs. Not one or two only but dozens to thousands of them. This is how it works. With each niche blog pumping in a few dollars a day, it can quickly add up to huge incomes. The gurus understand that. What about you? Are you ready to learn how to create a niche marketing blog empire?
Niche marketing blogs are essentially mini-sites using blog platforms to market a product in a niche. The most popular blog content management platforms are Blogger and Wordpress. These are the kings in terms of SEO and userability and expandability. Let us now take a look at what is needed to build our very own niche marketing blog empire.
Niche marketing blogs are centered around a particular tight niche. Once you select a niche topic that receives moderate searches but has little or no competition, you can start to create your first niche blog around the topic. You also need to find affiliate programs or products to sell on your blog. Since they are effective in pulling small sales over the entire month, you would need tons of them in order to create an empire.
In short, you need to duplicate the following steps for each niche marketing blog you build assuming we are using WordPress blogs.
1. Formatting and tweaking the theme to make it SEO friendly
2. Make your site easy to social bookmark
3. Putting in the relevant plug-ins
4. Monetizing the site with affiliate links and Adsense blocks
5. Updating the site with fresh content regularly
6. Promoting the blog by pinging it to major services and submitting RSS feeds to the directories.
By now, I am presuming you can see how much work is needed to do so. It is manageable if you only own one blog. But anything beyond 5 or 6 of them and you would face the crunch in terms of time and efforts. It can be challenging therefore if you want to build dozens of such niche marketing blogs, not to mention hundreds of them.
How then are the marketing gurus able to achieve that?
The gurus are able to do so because they have teams of people working for them. They have employees and many of their jobs are outsourced. But they are gurus and have deep pockets.
What about the average online or affiliate marketer?
All hope is not lost. In recent months, a powerful blogging management tool has emerged and has leveled the playing field. Without needing any manpower resource, this single tool can handle all the tasks I have mentioned earlier. What is amazing is that it can create a niche marketing blog from scratch in 5 minutes. In other words, in 5 minutes, you can own a blog ready to start earning for you.
Everything from blog creation to multiple blog management, content updating and blog promotion are managed from one tool. So now, even the average marketer can beat the odds and build his or her own niche marketing blog empire.
Find out what is this secret weapon from my niche blog.
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Niche marketing blogs are powerful income machines. Many online marketing gurus own such blogs. Not one or two only but dozens to thousands of them. This is how it works. With each niche blog pumping in a few dollars a day, it can quickly add up to huge incomes. The gurus understand that. What about you? Are you ready to learn how to create a niche marketing blog empire?
Niche marketing blogs are essentially mini-sites using blog platforms to market a product in a niche. The most popular blog content management platforms are Blogger and Wordpress. These are the kings in terms of SEO and userability and expandability. Let us now take a look at what is needed to build our very own niche marketing blog empire.
Niche marketing blogs are centered around a particular tight niche. Once you select a niche topic that receives moderate searches but has little or no competition, you can start to create your first niche blog around the topic. You also need to find affiliate programs or products to sell on your blog. Since they are effective in pulling small sales over the entire month, you would need tons of them in order to create an empire.
In short, you need to duplicate the following steps for each niche marketing blog you build assuming we are using WordPress blogs.
1. Formatting and tweaking the theme to make it SEO friendly
2. Make your site easy to social bookmark
3. Putting in the relevant plug-ins
4. Monetizing the site with affiliate links and Adsense blocks
5. Updating the site with fresh content regularly
6. Promoting the blog by pinging it to major services and submitting RSS feeds to the directories.
By now, I am presuming you can see how much work is needed to do so. It is manageable if you only own one blog. But anything beyond 5 or 6 of them and you would face the crunch in terms of time and efforts. It can be challenging therefore if you want to build dozens of such niche marketing blogs, not to mention hundreds of them.
How then are the marketing gurus able to achieve that?
The gurus are able to do so because they have teams of people working for them. They have employees and many of their jobs are outsourced. But they are gurus and have deep pockets.
What about the average online or affiliate marketer?
All hope is not lost. In recent months, a powerful blogging management tool has emerged and has leveled the playing field. Without needing any manpower resource, this single tool can handle all the tasks I have mentioned earlier. What is amazing is that it can create a niche marketing blog from scratch in 5 minutes. In other words, in 5 minutes, you can own a blog ready to start earning for you.
Everything from blog creation to multiple blog management, content updating and blog promotion are managed from one tool. So now, even the average marketer can beat the odds and build his or her own niche marketing blog empire.
Find out what is this secret weapon from my niche blog.
Website content
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